I'm scanning the codebase with PHPStorm's code analysis tools tonight and I found three instances of the "Silly Arguments" rule where we are assigning a variable itself. I don't have any idea why were doing this so I thought I'd roll up a patch to test it.

In the case of the two issues I found in the date module I changed to logic so that the "silly argument" wasn't needed.

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